{"id":516838,"date":"2022-08-25T12:58:43","date_gmt":"2022-08-25T07:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=516838"},"modified":"2022-08-25T13:02:21","modified_gmt":"2022-08-25T07:32:21","slug":"california-sets-in-motion-plan-to-put-brake-on-gasoline-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/california-sets-in-motion-plan-to-put-brake-on-gasoline-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"California sets in motion plan to put brake on gasoline cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>California is expected to put into effect on Thursday its sweeping plan to prohibit the sale of new gasoline-powered cars by 2035, a groundbreaking move that could have major effects on the effort to fight climate change and accelerate a global transition towards electric vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is huge,\u201d said Margo Oge, an electric vehicles expert who headed the Environmental Protection Agency\u2019s transportation emissions programme under Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama. \u201cCalifornia will now be the only government in the world that mandates zero-emission vehicles. It is unique.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The rule, issued by the California Air Resources Board, will require that 100 per cent of all new cars sold in the state by 2035 be free of the fossil fuel emissions chiefly responsible for warming the planet, up from 12 per cent today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California is expected to put into effect on Thursday its sweeping plan to prohibit the sale of new gasoline-powered cars by 2035, a groundbreaking move that could have major effects on the effort to fight climate change and accelerate a global transition towards electric vehicles. \u201cThis is huge,\u201d said Margo Oge, an electric vehicles expert who headed the Environmental Protection Agency\u2019s transportation emissions programme under Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama. \u201cCalifornia will now be the only government in the world that mandates zero-emission vehicles. It is unique.\u201d The rule, issued by the California Air Resources Board, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,245,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-516838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-telegraph","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}